Linux account locked due to failed logins

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i hope someone could help me

while trying login to my Ubuntu machine with my user i'm getting "account locked due to 29 failed"

i logged in with recovery mode and now i'm root but i can't change any "Pam_tally" configuration because of the recovery mode restrictions.

how can this be solved?

Kobe Vaknin

Posted 2016-03-20T11:41:03.990

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Answers

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Try remounting the root disk as read-write when in recovery

mount / -o remount,rw

This will allow you to modify the filesystem and remove the restrictions.

davidgo

Posted 2016-03-20T11:41:03.990

Reputation: 49 152

i did, what should i do now? – Kobe Vaknin – 2016-03-21T08:01:21.220

I don't know - I've never used pam_tally. I'm guessing you will want to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf to remove reference to pam_tally or modify /etc/pam.d/system-auth. Looking at http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-log-failed-login.html though, it would appear to me that, as root, you could probably reset the login counter simply by using the command faillog -r -u USERNAME - you don't even need to boot to recovery to do this !

– davidgo – 2016-03-21T08:14:56.917

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